CCN conference - submissions close Monday 18th June

It's very exciting to see the number of submissions steadily increasing leading up to our deadline.

In case you're a student who'd like to present at the conference, but don't yet have data to report, have you considered submitting a presentation based on your literature review under our "Neuropsychological Controversies" section?

This  presentation type is intended to be an opportunity for students and recent graduates (or anyone, really) to present the most up-to-date information and controversies that they've identified in their research. We figure that students are immersed in the most recent research in a whole range of areas across the lifespan. They're often even more up-to-date than their supervisors. Giving students (and recent graduates) the opportunity to present a controversies and recent developments that they have identified in their research will update the knowledge of those of us who studied long, or not so long, ago, and will also allow discussion and sharing of ideas and references related to the field of study. Research findings could then be shared in the poster session, potentially allowing the student two abstracts in the conference proceedings.

Just as presenting research findings at conferences can help students in preparing their theses, this session may even help in preparation of literature reviews for publication as stand-alone articles...

Have a look at presentation ideas at  http://ccn2012.blogspot.com There's a post on student initiatives that we hope will have you feeling enthused about coming. And sitting down this weekend to write an abstract based on the exciting, new, controversial, clinically relevant information you have discovered in your exhaustive hours of reading the literature....

And don't be intimidated by the Neuropsychology in Action theme - we're interested in any submissions that update our knowledge and understanding of topics in the field - if you're doing research and sharing your insights, that's being active!

Finally, since not all students are aware of the conference, or are even members of the CCN, please feel free to forward the link to this blog to your neuropsychology friends, and encourage them to join! The more the merrier, and the easier it will be for us to develop a collaborative community of neuropsychologists.